Not by necessity, of course not. I don’t dispute any of this - hence structural realism. Tao does not refer to a ‘best way’ of being at all - that, I ...
Ah, baker, welcome back to the discussion. I can always count on you to take my statements completely out of context. Allow who to feel good? No, not ...
Well, I never claimed to be championing Schopenhauer, or what he actually believed - although, to be fair, I haven’t laid out very clearly where I dis...
I do think the ultimate imperfection of any being is sufficient reason NOT to create another one, and any expectation or hope that we could ever creat...
The baseline of the human condition can be described as ‘dissatisfaction’ by those for whom ‘individual will’ is considered the ultimate goal of being...
But this is my point - it is the assumption that they’re the same thing that results in prediction error. Just because people think or say that someth...
I’m well aware that the illusion doesn’t go away. The horizon doesn’t go away, either, but it ceases to be a limitation once we understand the situati...
Sure, but a trend is very different from a widely-held opinion, wouldn’t you say? Pareto’s principle is about the distribution of quantitative value, ...
No, the appearance is the ‘individual dealing with these things’. For you, it seems, the world as representation is the reality, being oppressed by th...
Because there IS NO one-size-fits-all, ‘concrete’ solution. Because everyone’s situation is different, and changes all the time. Because any step-by-s...
Oh, for crying out loud... I didn’t say it was a ‘bad’ situation - it’s a situation. Most people prefer to be blind, to be led around by ‘forces’ they...
This makes sense to me. But what about the question: Are squares better than shapelessness? I wonder what value would one have that would lead them to...
Some interpret it this way, sure. Doesn’t mean they’re correct, just because they’re ‘insiders’. That’s like assuming Christian fundamentalists unders...
Doesn’t mean there is, either. It’s a concept that’s entirely constructed from perceived value/potential/significance in relation to an ongoing sensor...
I’m not talking about divine status or ‘higher reality’, only metaphysics. And I’m not talking about escape, either. It’s an opportunity to increase a...
AGAIN - NOT arguing for birthing more people. There is no point in bringing this into our discussion. I’ve already commented on Willy Wonka. Go back a...
But it does go together. Lack - as an awareness of feeling I don’t have something - entails EITHER an expectation that I should have it - that there i...
That depends on your interpretation. The idea of ‘getting through the gates of heaven’ seems to me a misunderstanding of enlightenment in the first pl...
Yes, really. Every moment you exist as being, you are also dying, and no amount of compliance can change that. Life isn’t one or the other, but BOTH. ...
There’s no point in saying ‘unless death’, because death is undeniable. This whole mantra of ‘comply OR die’ is false: rather it’s AND, and both terms...
What you want isn’t as important as you seem to think it is, and is certainly not a reliable foundation on which to structure anything to last. We’re ...
Sorry, you are being imprecise. An event still has properties. Beg to differ. Any object is the result of events, the happenings of which you may just...
You’re right, it isn’t inevitable and it isn’t justifiable, but nor is it entirely avoidable. Those of us who do exist are going to suffer to some ext...
The difference is that we do it only when it appears to be in our own best interests, when it helps us to get by, to survive, dominate, or procreate -...
Yes - specifically because of the softness (ie. 3D variability) of the cushion in relation to the ball. You can’t extend this same quality of softness...
No - the problem is that you don’t understand the qualitative aspect of a thought experiment. If we imagine coming across a ball in contact with a cus...
In that case there is no cause for the depression, because there is no existence of the cushion with any other shape than that in which the ball fits....
So why is seeking ‘happiness’ or ‘satisfaction’ the most important thing? ...and its this ‘locus of concretion’ that’s most important, right? Your ide...
I’m aware of that. And I’m saying that any kind of existence can appear burdensome and dissatisfying in relation to the illusion of ‘individual potent...
I’m not claiming efficacy, only potentiality. The difference is desire. I cannot have the life I want wrapped up in a bow and delivered to me, free of...
Survival is A result of the process, not THE result. And it’s the one we FEEL is most important, based on our fears. Any intent is in those writing th...
But the evolutionary narrative is not ‘survival’, as much as we wish it was. The reason humans are still here is due to a series of variably stable st...
From the website you cited: “Zooming out to look at the bigger picture this means that everything living today is the result of an unbroken sequence o...
Yes, and I’m disagreeing with you on this point. I think that consciousness is hindered to the extent that the organism is separated from its environm...
And I’ve repeatedly said so. My point is that we’re capable of living our lives without setting this evaluation in stone, and that it’s inaccurate to ...
That’s evidence of diversity, not of ‘survival’ as the reason for diversity. The question isn’t ‘why are all these other species extinct?’ It’s ‘why h...
There is insufficient evidence to assume that ‘survival’ is the purpose of evolution, just because it happens to be a result of natural selection. Nat...
No - natural selection is fact, Darwinian evolution is a theory, and ‘survival of the fittest’ is an interpretation. The idea that we evolved to be th...
You’re not answering my question. You can plan anything you want - that’s potential, not actual. Punching is a violation against an already materialis...
So... none of the above. You do realise that all of this is interpretation. Even Darwinian evolution and this notion of ‘survival of the fittest’ are ...
Interesting that you cite ‘human primal fears’ as the basis of a need for god - where do they fit into your list of ‘human mind, the scientific method...
Your sentence makes no sense. Something has to exist in order to violate a pre-existing dignity. Violate: 1. Break or fail to comply with (a rule or f...
Your fiction is pretend - the fact that life provides options aside from compliance is not. I have already agreed that ‘forcing someone into the world...
Then I would disagree with you here. Just because living things move in relation to a stationary environment does not render them separate from it. Th...
It is, but it refers to internally organised limits in particular, not just any boundary. The organism is not really separate from its environment, it...
That’s okay - I wasn’t implying that you were. But let’s say a collection of cells bounded by a Petri dish would not have these non-conscious sensory ...
I think perhaps identity is more than just boundedness. Integration seems to me the prerequisite here for consciousness. It’s hard to imagine a sea sp...
WTF? Completely unnecessary - sexist character attacks with zero substance are not welcome here. You want to write fiction - do it somewhere else, and...
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